In the same breath I find it both funny and scary. For the total 21 or so hours I was in China, I can safely say I hated it and the people in it. Rude, dirty and obnoxious.

Anyway, my own distaste for the great unwashed aside, I had a first hand experience of the censorship there. And the great impact of it never really dawned on me until recently.

1/5 of the world’s population has no freedom to access information or opinions that aren’t approved by the government. 1/5 of the world has moments in history blocked. 1/5 of the world can’t view entertainment (I use the term entertainment very loosely here) that the government doesn’t like.

“Censorship in China has been on the rise since Jinping took power.

China employs a massive censorship team to ensure that the internet is free of anything that the government doesn’t support.

When the Chinese Communist Party announced in early 2018 that presidential term limits would be removed, online censorship efforts were pushed into overdrive.

Phrases such as “I don’t agree” and “re-election” were closely monitored on China’s various social media sites.

Chinese social media users have noticed content that is posted that is critical of the country’s president is usually deleted within minutes.

Next point of concern, the Great and Wise Insecurity Issues on top of the Golden Throne of Ching Chong China has removed the US-inspired two term maximum for a sitting President:

“I’ve posted this before but it was censored within 13 minutes so I will post it again. I oppose to the amendment of the ‘no more than two consecutive terms of office’ as addressed in the third section of Article 79 of the Constitution,” one micro-blogger said.

We thought the fat boy was bad, but this is a return to a Maoist or Stalinist style dictatorship. Not that the Chinese Communist Party wasn’t a dictatorship already, but now it is focused in a single figurehead.

You will NEVER get those on the left who admire socialism and Marxism to admit that the ideals are wrong. It will ALWAYS come back to it being, “Well, {insert name of leader here} isn’t doing it right! They should be doing {insert perfect-world scenario}…”
From there, the discussion will swing to fantasy-land and how things would be if the communists did it all “correctly”. Realism and the nature of humans is not allowed in those discussions.

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